Word: rum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session code-named "Operation Sultana." He added a little Navy rum ("Just for flavor. You don't want people to get paralytic") and baked the largest layer for 8½ hours. The result, which was stashed behind a locked door at the Royal Navy Cookery School, measured out at 4½ ft. and 224 Ibs., 49 of which...
...ancient bar in New York City's Yorkville neighborhood--an establishment that was subsequently turned into a singles bar frequented by professional hockey players. Tended by a genial Irish giant named Ned, the bar had fallen on difficult times and was forced to accept the whiskey-sour-or-rum-and-coke indignities of my friends and me. And like all good neighborhood bars, the Shamrock had its share of local bums who always depended on Ned and his colleagues for a nightly snort...
...second act, Cats turns ruminative, elegiac and theatrically spectacular. Old Gus (Steven Tate), who had wheezed his disapproval of life onto the current stage, suddenly metamorphoses into his dream role of Growltiger, a samurai pirate cat-and the playground bursts into a kaleidoscope of colorful costumes and Kabuki gymnastics. Rum Tum Tugger, the cool cat of rock (Paul Nicholas), tells the story of magical Mr. Mistoffelees (Royal Ballet Dancer Wayne Sleep), who displays twisting, spiraling, pirouetting feats of legerdepied. Finally, Old Deuteronomy bestows a rare gift on the down-and-out Grizabella: a tenth life. The stage becomes misty...
Today Seagram sells $2.5 billion worth of alcoholic beverages annually; 70% of that goes to the U.S. But sales of its two top brands, Seven Crown and V.O. Canadian whisky, have slipped in recent years as the American public has switched to lighter drinks and wine. Bacardi rum has displaced Seven Crown as the country's bestselling brand...
...course, Buffett cannot take full creative credit of responsibility for these thoughts. But the fact that he recorded a song with such a mainstream message seems to indicate that our man has finally gotten up out of his hammock, put down the rum punch and headed off on some serious thought waves...